Mexico to California (USA)

My last few weeks in Mexico were very busy. I visited a few more historic sites built by the Incas and the Zapotecas and spent time in the towns of San Cristobal and Oaxaca. There are really interesting places with good museums and festivals in the squares at night with traditional music and dancing.

As you know I then travelled to the capital of Mexico, which is called Mexico City. It is a very big and very interesting city and I was really looking forward to spending time there. Unfortunately, the H1N1 Virus had just been recognised so the whole city was shut down to prevent the virus from spreading. This meant I had a very boring few days before flying to Los Angeles which is on the west coast of America.

LA is a big city and hard to get around but I enjoyed time in an area called Venice beach. I also went to Hollywood and saw the street which has stars in the pavement which have the names of famous actors, musicians, directors and performers on them. I did see someone famous too, Simon Pegg who is a British actor in Hot Fuzz and Run fat Boy Run!

My next step was to drive from LA to the city of San Francisco up the coast road. It is a really beautiful drive. The most exciting thing I saw was a beach with a huge colony of elephant seals who had come ashore to rest and shed the thick layer of fur on their skin. They lie on the beach in groups, or pods, and flick sand over themselves with their flippers to keep cool.


My travels are very quickly coming to an end now. I have just a month left. In my remaining time I will visit some of the famous National Parks here: Yosemite and Lake Tahoe which are meant to be very beautiful. I hope to post one last time before I fly back to Edinburgh, see you all before the end of term, I can't wait!